Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-08
THE NEST.

i that State recently
THE collapse of the San Francisco wheat
corner on the 27th carried down DresDacn
& Resented, the bull operators.
THREE Fin laborers were drowned near
Duluth, Mimi, the other day by the capsiz-
| ing of their sailboat-
The assets of S. N. Matson, the bankrupt
Chicago jeweler, are placed at $25O,21 and
the liabilities at S11S,OOO
THOMAS G. KNOTT OF New Albany. Ind,
has been arrested for offering to sell sup
plies of ten dollar counterfeits at big dis
| count.
A HEAVY flow of natural gas has been
| struck on the Indiana side of the Ohio
river, twenty-five miles from Louisville,
XIV. If 1t keeps up it will be piped TO that
city.
rietta railroad ran through a burning tres
tie near Cam bridge, o., on the 29th- The
! fireman was badly hurt
| DURING the progress of fire in Flint,
| Mich, the other morning, five prisoners, all
tramps, dug their way out of jail and es-
| capped.
WILLIAM ST. CLAIR Ross, doing business
as W. St. Clair Ross & Co., at Elm and
Third streets, Cincinnati, has assigned to
II. S. Lloyd. The firm has been doing a
large business as paper manufacturers and
| wholesale dealers in envelopes, cards, etc.
| The failure was precipitated by Eastern
failures.
The Anchor Manufacturing Company's
works, near Detroit, Mich, were destroyed
by fire recently. The losses were heavy
and $50 men were thrown out of employ
ment.
AUTHENTIC accounts of the battle be-
tween the whites and hostile Utes near
Meeker, Col, on the 25th, show five whites
killed, including Lieutenant Folsom, and
four wounded. The Indians lost nine killed,
including two squaws, and five wounded.
On the Goth it was estimated that Colorow
had about 600 braves under his control.
WHILE hands were threshing on the farm
of Lynch Curtis, near Flint, Mich, re-
Gently the grain stacker caught fire and
while the men were fighting the fire the
steam boiler exploded, killing Daniel
Steeger outright and severely injuring
William lockwood, John Bennett and three
young women, who were assisting.
THE Wisconsin Central engineers threaten
to strike against II. S. Barnes, superintend-
ent of machinery in the shops at Waukesha
for some hidden reason.
Mrs. SHIELDS, who was to have been
hanged at Tahlequah, 1. T., for killing her
llegitimate grandchild, has been respited
to November l.
b. p. HUTCHINSON, one of the most promi-
nent members of the Chicago Board of
Trade, was suspended by the Board of Di-
rectors recently for ninety days. The
cause of the suspension was ostensibly
''put and call trading. 1t was, however,
animated that the real cause was personal
bitterness against Hutchinson because of
his attempt to wreck the wheat crowd re-
Gently, when the Kershaw corner bursted.
THE eXten sive works of the St Louis Car
Wheel Company were destroyed by fire the
other night. The loss was estimated at
about $4,000, fully insured.
AT Meadville, Ariz., recently in quarrel
over the ownership of a mine, Albert Mead
killed three men and was himself killed by
acquitted Fred Mead.
PROF. FORBES reports chinch bugs gen.
eral in Illinois.
THE first litigation growing out of the
ChatSworth horror started on the 31st at
Peoria, ILL.,, in the shape of nineteen dam
age suits, aggregating S127, 500, which were
begun in the circuit court. Ten are So, 900
each, all death cases. The others are for
injuries, and demand various sums, reach
IN one instance $40, 900.
The saw mills of Kimball & Clark
about six miles west of Hurley, Wis, were |
totally destroyed by fire the other morning.
Loss, 100000. No insurance.
Two engines met in collision on the st. |
Paul & Duluth road at St. Paul, MINI, the |
other day, both engineers being terribly
injured and the engines wrecked.
GEORGE s. HALL, a farmer, was burned
to death recently by the burning OF j. II.
Coles barn at Detroit, Mich.
CONGRESSMAN O'NEILL, OF st. Louis, No,
witnessed the evictions at Herbertstown,
Ireland, recently.
AN aeronaut named Blakeslv fell from
trapeze bar at Princeton, Mo-, on the 31st
when his balloon was at a height of 400
feet and he was horribly mashed TO death.
COMPLAINTS are made in Nevada of stock
companies, principally alien, lording it over
the settlers OF portions of that State. An
investigation has been ordered.
CoLoRow and his band returned to their
reservation at Ouray, Col, on the 9th, thus
closing the war.
GENERAL NELSON A. MILES was thrown
from tally-ho coach near Los Angeles,
Cal, on the 31st and had his right leg
broken at the ankle. Several others sus-
tanned slight injuries.
GRAVEYARD insurance companies are
causing trouble in Indiana. They have been
driven out of Michigan.
ISRAEL LUCAS, the county treasurer of
Wapakoneta, o., has disappeared. His de-
falcations were put at $50, 600.
MRS. MCGARIGLE, wife of the escaped
ooodler, has disappeared from Chicago.
IOWA Democrats met at DeS Molnes on
the 1st. Major T. j. Anderson was nomi-
mated for Governor; j. Nj. Elder, Lieuten-
ant-Governor; Supreme Judge, Charles S.
HOSS, superintendent OF HuDllc 1nStruC-
ton, n. II. w. Saycr.
JOSIAH TERRILL, for the murder of Charles
Phelps in Meigs County, was hanged in the
jail at Columbus, o., at midnight on the lst.
The Rdil"Gy Age, of Chicago, says: 1T
now seems probable that the number CT
miles of new road constructed in the United
States during 1887 will be about l2,OoO.
This figure is the greatest on record. Kan
sas still continues far in the lead over the
other States in the work Of railway con
struction.n
The Tonic basin country in Arizona has
been the scene of more murders Eleven
murders were committed in two weeks.
The two factions were fighting over the
possession of a spring